Alex Formuzis

Alex Formuzis is Vice President for Media Relations for the Environmental Working Group. Alex came to EWG after 8 years as a senior aide to three members of the United States Senate. Prior to his time on Capitol Hill he was in the public affairs shop of the Clinton Treasury Department, in the policy shop for the NGO Independent Sector, and worked on state and local campaigns in in his native Washington State. Alex graduated from the University of Montana in 1995 with a B.A. in political science and currently resides in Washington, D.C. With his wife Susan and their two children, Lily and Jack.

Parkinson’s and Pesticides

Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but – after farm workers and consumers have been exposed to them for years.

Earlier this week, while Lindsay Lohan’s latest legal woes were trending on Google News, an important study that got little attention in the media gave a big boost to Ken’s argument. Read more